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Elephant hunting illustration. Photo: Dana Akerfeld.

The human brain grew following the extinction of large mammals and the transition to hunting small mammals

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A new article by Dr. Miki Ben Dor and Prof. Ran Barkai, researchers from the Department of Archeology offers a unifying explanation for the accumulated physiological changes and the social behavior of humans since the appearance of man about two million years ago until the agricultural revolution
Excavations 2018 at the archaeological site Ein Gav 2 on the Sea of ​​Galilee, from the research of Prof. Lior Grossman. Photo: Naftali Hilgar

First direct evidence of a surplus economy and long-term hoarding 12,000 years ago

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At the prehistoric Nahal Ein Gev site in northern Israel, researchers from the Hebrew University have uncovered evidence that man stored various materials, including food, in an elaborate facility established 12 years ago. According to the researchers, the facility testifies to the advance of the hoarding phenomenon known to us by about a thousand years
A Kong woman makes jewelry next to a boy. Stahler/Wikimedia

Humans are not selfish by nature - we are actually built to work together

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Studies have shown that the hunter-gatherers cooperated and did not compete. The competition started with agriculture
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